John writes, "Wikimedia UK is looking for UK institutions eager to work with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects by hosting funded Wikimedian in Residence posts. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia movement, collecting, developing, promoting and distributing freely licensed knowledge."
A Wikimedian in Residence post is one of the most effective ways to explore how your organisation can engage with the 6th most visited website in the world (it receives 21 billion page views per month). Wikipedia is the most used reference work in the world, as an organisation that cares about knowledge it would be valuable for you to engage with it by means of this project.
Previous Wikimedians in Residence in the UK have worked at The Royal Society, National Library of Scotland, Natural History Museum, Science Museum, York Museums Trust, British Museum and the British Library. These residents have focussed on making the organisation’s content available on Wikipedia, offering training for staff and volunteers to find uses for Wikimedia projects in furthering the goals of the organisation the project was based at.
Interested organisations should make contact by the end of February – please contact Wikimedia UK Programme Manager Daria Cybulska daria.cybulska@wikimedia.org.uk 020 7065 0994
2014-15 Wikimedians in Residence applications
(Thanks, John!)
